Terrible Things Quotes - Page 11

• Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Numbers, Mastery, Calling

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• I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

  Julie Bowen

  Dog, Cat, Two

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• What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

  Yann Martel

  Farewell, Life Of Pi Book, Terrible

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

  Eve Bunting

  Motivational, Overcoming, Looks

  "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust". Book by Eve Bunting, www.theguardian.com. 1980.

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• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  Ralph Lauren

  Good Things, Terrible, Happens

  "Ralph Lauren's Reign". Interview with Mark Seliger, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

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• For the truth is a terrible thing.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Truth Is, Terrible

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.516, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, World, Influence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Running, Expression, Names

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• There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

  Nell Zink

  Easier, Repetition, Terrible

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• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

  Albert Einstein

  Society, Crime, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

  Paul Engle

  Boys, Knives, Terrible

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.153, University of Iowa Press

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• The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

  Countee Cullen

  Lying, Loss, Love Is

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America

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• Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

  Larry Kramer

  Stupid, People, Belief

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• Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Book, Waste, Terrible

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• To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

  Orson Scott Card

  Two, Choices, Terrible

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Worthing Saga”, p.108, Macmillan

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• I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, People, Favors

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• Guilt's a terrible thing.

  Ben Jonson

  Guilt, Terrible

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.471

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• Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Scary, Glamorous

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• We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this entire Iraqi invasion from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

  Robert Reich

  Iraq, Would Be, World

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 22, 2007.

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Wicked, Aristocracy

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• Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Disease

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Betrayal

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• You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

  Anderson Cooper

  Work, Community, Suffering

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• William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

  Johan Huizinga

  Bridges, Progress, Earth

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